Best Neighborhoods in Moraga, CA

Fernwood is the kind of quiet, settled Moraga neighborhood people picture when they imagine the town: established residential streets on the eastern side, away from the busier commercial corners, with the calm that keeps these blocks in steady demand. ... See Full Page

Moraga Country Club is exactly what the name says: a planned community of private residences built around the club's 18-hole golf course on the western, Orinda-facing side of Moraga. Buying a home here comes with automatic equity membership, so the golf, tennis, pool, and clubhouse restaurant are part of the package rather than an add-on. ... See Full Page

School Street is about as close as Moraga gets to a walkable core. Sitting near the Moraga Center, it is one of the few neighborhoods where you can actually stroll to shops, errands, and a coffee instead of driving, which is a real rarity in this town and a big part of why these blocks stay in demand. ... See Full Page

This neighborhood is defined by Saint Mary's College, the Catholic liberal arts school whose Spanish Colonial Revival campus sits along St. Mary's Road on Moraga's eastern, more rural edge. The college sets the rhythm here: Gaels basketball and campus events bring energy to an otherwise quiet, semi-rural stretch of town. ... See Full Page

Alta Mesa sits in the middle of Moraga, on the higher ground the name implies, a short hop from the Moraga Center shops and the 40-acre Moraga Commons. That central position is the whole appeal: you are close to the bandshell concerts, the splash pad, and the skate park at the Commons without sitting right on the busier Moraga Road traffic. ... See Full Page

Camino Pablo takes its name from the road and the elementary school that anchor this part of southern Moraga, and that is how it functions: a steady, school-centered residential stretch where Camino Pablo Elementary is the local landmark. Buyers tour these streets specifically to land in that attendance area. ... See Full Page

Campolindo is the wooded, hilly north end of Moraga, the neighborhood that shares its name with the high school that draws a lot of the people who move here. The streets curve with the topography into quiet cul-de-sacs, a deliberate 1960s plan that keeps through-traffic out and gives the homes room to breathe. ... See Full Page

Sanders Ranch is the gated, big-lot southeast corner of Moraga, a guard-controlled community built out in the 1980s as the town's high end. It still reads that way: some of the largest homes in Moraga, on generous hillside lots, with the views and elbow room that command the top prices in town. ... See Full Page

Rimer is a residential neighborhood on the south side of Moraga, set into the hillside streets around Rimer Drive. It is one of the calmer, lower-traffic corners of town, the kind of place that is mostly houses and not much else. ... See Full Page

Ascot is one of the few corners of Moraga where you can buy in without buying a full single-family estate. The pocket along Ascot Drive runs to townhomes and condominium communities like Las Palmas Rheem, which is why prices here tend to start lower than the big-lot neighborhoods across town. ... See Full Page

Corliss is a small, established pocket near the center of Moraga, tucked just off the Rheem side of town. It is one of the quieter residential enclaves here, known locally for well-landscaped lots and a settled, lived-in feel rather than for new construction. ... See Full Page